Much has been written about temporary internet files. To my amazement, there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about how these files are put on your computer and the effect they have on your computing experience. Some articles propose these files slow your computer to a crawl, others indicate they are memory hogs. While some suggest that these files only affect the MS Internet Explorer browser.
One thing that most authors get right is the purpose of temporary internet files. Allow me to give another explanation just to be clear.
Temporary internet files are a collection of web page copies stored on your computer’s hard disk or in its random-access memory. Pages you view are normally stored in a special cache folder for quicker viewing the next time you visit the same page. The bowser compares the cached copy to the original. If there have been no changes, the browser uses the cached copy rather than re-fetching the original, saving processing and download time.
Slowing your computer down?
The size of your file cache will cause your computer to slow down ONLY if the cache size is very, very large and fragmented. By nature cached files are...